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Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929.
I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold
We acknowledge we are a blessed nation with a rich history of faith and fortitude, with a future that is filled with promise and purpose.
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.
Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.
So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.
…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.
Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. —Alex Morales to Miranda Evans
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.
Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.
If you love me I will promise I love you, if you are my mate I will die for you. But if somebody starts giving it me, I will give it back.
An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a promise.
Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
Life is tougher for Americans - especially for those who voted by the highest percentages for President Obama's promise of hope and change.
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.
I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.
As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.
If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.